Defense, and Jesse Dane Duff of concerned veterans for america. How to we take better care of our veterans . Does it start by firing the man at the top . Tonight on crossfire. Welcome to crossfire. Im s. E. Cupp on the right. Im van jones on the left. Tonight we have two advocates for americas veterans. Veterans affair secretary Eric Shinseki was on capitol hill today fighting to keep his job. Cnn Senior Investigative correspondent drew griffin actually broke the story in the first place. His reporting is the reason the senate had the hearing today. Hes here to give us a closer look of how we got here. Van, and s. E. , this is an eruption and a scandal basically because of our reporting out of a Phoenix Va Medical Center last month in which sources told us of a secret waiting list where veterans were simply left waiting for care on a secret list trying to hide the fact of just how long they had been waiting. Some up to 21 months. Our same sources tell us at that va facility, 40 veteran
Right now, Prince Charles is in some serious hot water after reportedly comparing Vladimir Putin to adolf hitler. His comments are reviving a longtime argument about whether royals should only be seen and not heard. Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. We begin here in washington where president obama says today he says today he will allow veteran secretary shinseki to stay in his job at least for now. The retired u. S. Army general has been under intense pressure to resign over disturbing rempl lations that some va facilities may have compiled secret patient wait lists. Some of those patients died while waiting for care. The white house says it first learned of the allegations from cnns reporting last month, but is still trying to gather all the facts. I know that people are angry and want scriwift reckoning. We have to let the investigators do their job and get to the bottom of what happened. Our veterans deserb to know the facts. Once we know the facts, i assure you, if
Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. Disturbing details coming to light today disturbing the scandal plagued v. A. Hospital in phoenix. Troops coming home were kept waiting for 10 months for followup at the facility. These were not run of the mill issues that could be delayed. Were talking about people that were injured by being blown up by ieds. Were talking about people who had a mental breakdown and have severe ptsd and having trouble functioning. Were talking about veterans that were severely injured by some means in the while in the military, even if it wasnt in actual combat. Cnn Senior Investigative correspondent drew griffin was the first to expose the extent of the problems inside the v. A. Facility in phoenix and elsewhere. Drew, white house chief of staff, rob nabors has now arrived in phoenix where you are and the president directed him to try to deal with this crisis. What does he hope to accomplish . Reporter we asked him that on his way in this morning. Rob
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The plane. Right now a horrifying story out of pakistan, a pregnant woman stoned to death by family members after she refused to marry the man they had chosen for her, all this coming just days after an american doctor was brutally gunned down in front of his wife and young son. Hello. Im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. The scandal is growing bigger and calls are growing louder for the v. A. Secretary to resign. We first reported preliminary findings from the Inspector Generals report on the v. A. Scandal. Thats when senator john mccain for the first time, called for secretary Erik Shinseki to step down. Since then, events have unfolded at a furious place. The white house says secretary shinseki is quote on thin ice with president obama. The Administration Says the president found the report on the scandal quote deeply troubling. The scathing report says at least 1700 veterans waiting to see a doctor at the phoenix v. A. Hospital were never scheduled for appointments and they w